How it works
This green text generator draws a short story as a picture. Every line that starts with > turns green, the way anonymous image boards colour a quoted line. The limit is 4 lines and 120 characters, in 6 fonts.
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How the green lines work
The tool checks only the first character of each line, so the mark must come right after Enter, or Return on a phone keyboard. A line without it, such as a title, takes the colour under Letter colour in More options. The green is fixed at #789922, whatever Colours says. Lines sit centred, not set from the left.
Six fonts and 12 looks
The page opens in Cousine, an even-width face of the kind a terminal uses, on the beige of Old paper. Courier Prime is the typewriter version, Share Tech Mono is thin and squared, and VT323 is made of pixels. Oswald and Poppins are for a poster, not a post. New look deals 12 designs, five with white letters on a dark background.
Tips
- The longest line sets the size of all four: Cousine holds full size to 14 characters and halves by 30.
- Greentext is lowercase, present tense and has no I: be me, not I was. Save the turn for last.
- Green on Old paper has a contrast of 2.8 to 1. Black gives 6 to 1 and suits long lines.
Questions and answers
Why is only the first line of my story green?
The story was typed as one long line, which the tool breaks to fit, and only the first piece starts with >. Press Enter where each line ends. Any character before the mark, even a full stop, keeps a line plain.
Can I make a longer greentext?
Not in one image: the tool takes 4 lines and 120 characters, a joke and not a saga. For more, save the story in parts with similar line lengths, so the letters match, and stack them in an image editor.
Where does the green text come from?
Wiktionary traces the name to an image board that shows lines starting with > in green. The mark is older: it prefixed quoted lines in Usenet newsgroups by 1990, and Wikipedia calls > the canonical prefix. This site has no connection to any image board.